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Most of the time when you see a cosplayer, they’re wearing a wig. One thing you might not have noticed is how often those carefully styled wigs are straight hair, even on anime characters whose hair grows up and out like kinky or coily hair does. Cosplayer Shellanin is challenging that assumption with her own wig…

Holiday Matsuri has quickly grown to become one of the biggest and best cosplay shows in the US. And it’s not hard seeing why: who wouldn’t want to escape the winter chills for a resort in Orlando in the middle of December?

The Louisville Supercon was held between Nov 30 – Dec 2 at the Kentucky International Convention Center. William Shatner, Henry Winkler, Alice Cooper and Richard Dreyfuss were there, but so too were a load of excellent cosplayers.

As the craft continues to grow, and its professionals become more professional, it feels like each year as we look back at the best cosplay from the last 12 months it gets harder and harder to pick standout examples from the crowd. Everything has just got so good.

Filmmaker Legend of Micah has teamed up with a range of professional stunt performers, who have worked on stuff like Avengers: Endgame, Avengers Infinity War and The Walking Dead, to pay tribute to Super Smash Bros.

Even though it’s only in its second year, Anime NYC is already the #1 show in the area outside NYCC, with almost 40,000 people coming through the gates of the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center between November 16-18.

At this year’s Tokyo Comic-Con, cosplay collective Harashiylabo’s Predator was in full force. You better believe that donning a get up like that makes one thirsty. Drinking while still in costume can’t be easy.